Welcome to the news hour. President Biden signed an executive order today that

temporarily blocks migrants from seeking asylum when border encounters reach

a certain number. The president used the announcement to set himself apart from his predecessor and political

rival, former President Donald Trump.

I will never demonize immigrants. I'll never refer to immigrants as poisoning the blood of a country.

And further, I'll never separate children from their families at the border.

I will not ban people from this country because of the religious beliefs.

I will not use the U.S. military to go into an agency. people from this country because of the religious beliefs.

I will not use the U.S. military to go into neighborhoods all across the country,

to pull millions of people out of their homes and away from their families to put detention

camps while awaiting deportation, as my predecessor says he will do if he occupies

his office again.

Still the move is one of the most restrictive President Biden has taken to date to crack down on the US-Mexico

border. Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez joins us now.

Laura, it's great to see you. So what does this executive order actually do?

President Biden said that he needed to take this action to secure the border and what it does

is that it uses 212F authority, what's known as 212F authority to temporarily suspend entry.

And so what that allows him to do is to asylum requests will be shut down when daily averages

hit 2,500 encounters between ports of entry.

Migrants will then be sent across the border or to their home country.

And asylum requests will only reopen if the average drops below 1,500 encounters across a 14 day period and the ACLU has already

said Jeff that it plans to file a legal challenge to this executive action and so

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